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Six Reasons North Carolina Got It Right [On Public Restrooms]
Townhall ^ | 03/30/2016 | Frank Turek

Posted on 03/30/2016 9:17:09 AM PDT by SeekAndFind

Lies are born the moment someone thinks the truth is dangerous. Apparently, a good number of business and sports executives think the truth about North Carolina’s “bathroom bill” (HB2) is dangerous, that’s why they are lying about it. Well, perhaps I should be a bit more charitable: some may not be overtly lying about it, but they are expressing their disapproval without knowing what the bill actually does.

On Monday Lt. Governor Dan Forest, who helped call the special session to pass HB2, called the executive in charge at one large protesting company and simply asked if him if he or anyone there had a actually read the bill.

He admitted they had not. They just labeled it “discriminatory” without even reading it.

Who needs the truth when you make so much “progress” by ignoring the truth and engaging in the very bigotry and name-calling you claim to oppose?

The truth is they, like other companies who haven’t bothered to read the bill, are simply taking their marching orders from the misnamed “Human Rights Campaign,” who have the audacity to claim that men have a human right to have access to women and girls in public bathrooms, and that any acknowledgement of the biological differences between men and women is somehow discrimination against people who prefer same-sex relationships.

In the name of diversity, I’d like to offer a different view in six points:

1. All good laws discriminate against behaviors not people. No one is being discriminated against with HB2, which discriminates against the behavior of a man using the women’s restroom. If any law is wrongly discriminatory it is the bad law passed by the Charlotte City council to create this controversy. It actually discriminates against women and children by making public restrooms unsafe for them. (The ACLU has already filed a lawsuit alleging HB2 does not provide “equal protection” to some folks. Ironically, it’s only because of HB2 that women and children get “equal protection” from predators in public bathrooms!)

2. People are equal, but their behaviors are not. Good laws treat all people equally, but not all of their behaviors equally. In fact, the very reason laws exist at all is because all behaviors are not equal and must be treated differently for the benefit of individuals and society. HB2 discriminates against no one who identifies as LGBT. The law merely sets a safe public bathroom use (behavior) for everyone, and keeps employment law consistent across the state (more on this below).

3. Your identity is not in your feelings but your biology. I can’t believe there is actually a need to say this, but many on the Left are living in their own invented reality and they are demanding that we live in it too. The reason we’ve always had separate bathrooms is because of biological sexual differences, not because of feelings or “gender identity.” HB2 simply says that people will use public bathrooms that align with their biological sex as found on their birth certificate.

How could this possibly be controversial? Are we to risk the safety of millions of women and children in public restrooms because an extremely small number of people are experiencing a mismatch between their psychology and their biology? Good public policy does not risk the physical safety of women and children because an extreme few have a preference for a different bathroom.

Moreover, HB2 actually accommodates people who have had so-called “sex change” operations. They can use the bathroom of their choice provided they’ve had their birth certificate changed. It also affects only public restrooms. Companies and other private organizations can adopt any policy they want for their workplace. Does the NBA and the NFL allow men in women’s bathrooms? Does Apple? Cisco? Marriott? Lowes? Then why are they insisting the government force everyone to do so? Why do they think North Carolina is wrongly discriminating when they are doing exactly the same thing in their businesses?

And why aren’t these holier-than-thou folks threatening to pull their business from Iran and Saudi Arabia where they are actually murdering homosexuals? Their moral outrage is not only misdirected, it shows that they’re willing to put women and children at risk by kowtowing to a deceptive special interest group, but they’ll sacrifice nothing to save the people they say they care about by confronting real evil abroad.

4. The danger is real from sexual predators in women’s restrooms. If you don’t think so, then watch this video. Just the first six minutes are chilling enough.

5. Race and LGBT are not the same: Race is not a behavior and race has no impact on someone’s behavior. But homosexuality is a behavior and LGBT political goals are all about imposing certain leftist behaviors on others, from forcing people to participate in same sex marriage ceremonies to allowing men in women’s restrooms.

The Human Rights Campaign also wants to use the strong arm of government to force companies to give employment preference to a long list of sexual orientations. This would mean that someone who claimed a homosexual orientation—or someone who exhibited the behavior of cross-dressing at work for example—would have more job security than John or Jane Doe. How so? Because if a company has to downsize, who are they going to let go—one of the helpless Does, or the person who can bring a costly lawsuit alleging “discrimination”?

6. Opposition to harmful behavior is not bigotry. It is wise. Unfortunately, some on the Left and in business falsely equate opposition to a behavior as prejudice toward people who engage in that behavior. That’s the central fallacy in virtually every argument the Human Rights Campaign puts out—if you don’t agree with every aspect of LGBT behavior or their political goals, you are somehow bigoted against people who identify that way. If political opposition is bigotry, then the activists at the Human Rights Campaign are bigots for opposing conservatives. The truth is conservatives have good reasons based in public health and safety for not wanting to advocate same-sex marriage or men in women’s bathrooms. But it’s much easier for the Human Rights Campaign to ignore those arguments and call people names.

The truth is just too dangerous.


TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Culture/Society; News/Current Events; US: North Carolina
KEYWORDS: lgbt; northcarolina; restrooms; transgender

1 posted on 03/30/2016 9:17:09 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
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To: SeekAndFind

Come quickly Lord Jesus, to rescue us from this evil day. Until then, I am teaching my daughters to pack heat and shoot to kill.


2 posted on 03/30/2016 9:27:11 AM PDT by Jan_Sobieski (Sanctification)
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To: SeekAndFind

North Carolina did the right thing.


3 posted on 03/30/2016 9:30:16 AM PDT by b4its2late (A Liberal is a person who will give away everything he doesn't own.)
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To: SeekAndFind

If this ever becomes legal in my state of California. I will escort my wife and daughter into every public women’s bathroom and stand guard at their stalls. If someone asks what I’m doing in the women’s bathroom, I’ll tell them I identify as female and am within my rights to be in there.


4 posted on 03/30/2016 9:58:27 AM PDT by Durbin
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To: SeekAndFind

God bless the people and representatives of North Carolina.

People pushing to allow the LGBT community to use whatever restroom they desire are sick. Some of them are simply evil and predatory. Those types should be caught and, at the best, horse whopped because the end game for them is to prey on children and particularly little girls.

Others are suffering from what the Bible calls a strong delusion and they need mental health. They think that by spouting foolish terms like diversity and inclusion to somehow erase and make good the evil they are perpetrating on society.

In the colonial days they had stockades on the town square for people like this.

Evil is with us...and it will be until our Lord and savior Jesus Christ returns triumphant to the earth and purges that evil from the face of it.

In the mean time, we are a free society that has its basis and foundation set in Christian values and we will be judged as a nation for our either adhering to it and holding fast to those principles, which have historically made us the freest, most generous, peace loving, and strongest nation on earth...

Or we will turn away from God and suffer the consequences of the inevitable results of embracing evil.

Why America is Free
http://www.freewebs.com/jeffhead/whyamericaisfree.htm


5 posted on 03/30/2016 10:10:05 AM PDT by Jeff Head (Semper Fidelis - Molon Labe - Sic Semper Tyrannis)
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To: b4its2late

“North Carolina did the right thing.”

Someone needs to post a comprehensive ilst of the companies who have voiced their “objections” to this well founded law, so we can adjust our patronage accordingly.


6 posted on 03/30/2016 10:38:25 AM PDT by vette6387 (Obama can go to hell!)
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To: SeekAndFind

They have always spent a lot of time in public restrooms. It where they do their thing in the stalls.


7 posted on 03/30/2016 10:38:53 AM PDT by olepap (Your old Pappy)
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To: b4its2late
North Carolina did the right thing


The did

It's all just diversity fun and games until some man dressed in woman's clothing in a woman's rest room pulls the zip ties, duct tape and straight razor out out of “her” purse with the intent to take some poor woman or child out to “her” van with the shovel and bags of quick lime in the back and celebrate “her” own particular concept of diversity on that person

Support North Carolina's HB2.

In the words of Nancy Pelosi, Its more than worth it even if it only saves the life of one woman or child.

And remember, its for the children

For real this time

8 posted on 03/30/2016 10:40:00 AM PDT by rdcbn ("If what has happened here is not treason, it is its first cousin." Zell Millera)
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To: SeekAndFind

The video is quite creepy and not a little disheartening..


9 posted on 03/30/2016 10:56:32 AM PDT by cardinal4 (Certified Islamophobe)
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To: SeekAndFind

bump for later


10 posted on 03/30/2016 11:45:10 AM PDT by Albion Wilde (In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act. --George Orwell)
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To: vette6387

Good idea.


11 posted on 03/30/2016 11:50:37 AM PDT by b4its2late (A Liberal is a person who will give away everything he doesn't own.)
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